May 12th, 2009 - Jonathan Ive (there, I bet you thought the headline was a typo) is not as famous as perhaps he ought to be. Next to Steve Jobs he has been responsible for turning the Apple brand around, making it desirable again, chiefly by designing the iPod, the first eMacs and substantial amounts of iMacs so...
(Read More) Jan 29th, 2009 - Just back from a briefing with the registration company behind the new .tel domain. Interesting stuff in that it's not really about websites as people who've gone in on the first wave of registrations, for commercial companies with trademarked names, will know.
Given the spate of fake...
(Read More) Sep 18th, 2008 - That was quick, but I suppose it would be. Readers might have heard that while America has had the Lehmann Brothers crisis, we've had our own little meltdown in the UK and two of our banks, HBOS and Lloyds, have decided to merge.
And they've been Cybersquatted.
Now, this can be a mightily...
(Read More) Aug 8th, 2008 - The concern over domain names and whether they can be hijacked by malicious code is accelerating. The BBC's website carries this story, in which Dan Kaminsky is credited with discovering the flaw and he warns that it could be more serious than we'd thought at first. Verisign is in the story...
(Read More) Jul 1st, 2008 - I've left this one a few days as I've been waiting to see whether there's a consensus. Last week ICANN overhauled the rules on Internet domain name, permanently - there's a BBC report on it here.
Without seeing any of the new domain names just yet it's difficult to tell just what the impact is...
(Read More) Jun 26th, 2008 - So the ICANN people are discussing a major overhaul of the Internet in Paris today. I can't say I'm all that delighted.
The thing about the Internet is that it basically works. If you can read this it's because I'm able, from London, to type in www.daniweb.com and follow the links in to submit...
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